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Tuesday, 6 June — 10:26 PM Japan Standard Time (JST; 13:26 UTC)

ATCF		9:00 PM JST (12:00 UTC)
Current location:		14.4°N 134.8°E
Relative location:		1,319 km (820 mi) SSE of Minamidaitojima, Okinawa Prefecture (Japan)
Forward motion:	▲	NNW (350°) at 11 km/h (6 knots)
Maximum winds:	▲	65 km/h (35 knots)
Intensity (SSHWS):	▲	Tropical Storm
Intensity (JMA):	▲	Tropical Storm
Minimum pressure:		1003 millibars (29.62 inches)

Official forecasts

Japan Meteorological Agency

Tuesday, 06 June — 9:00 PM JST (12:00 UTC)
(Note: Wind speeds have been converted from ten-minute values to one-minute values.)

Hour	Date	Time		Intensity		Winds		Lat	Long
	—	UTC	JST	JMA		knots	km/h	°N	°E
00	06 Jun	12:00	9PM Tue	Tropical Storm		40	75	12.8	134.8
24	07 Jun	12:00	9PM Wed	Tropical Storm	▲	50	95	14.8	133.0
48	08 Jun	12:00	9PM Thu	Severe Tropical Storm	▲	65	120	16.5	130.9
72	09 Jun	12:00	9PM Fri	Typhoon	▲	75	140	17.8	130.2
96	10 Jun	12:00	9PM Sat	Typhoon	▲	80	150	19.6	130.4
120	11 Jun	12:00	9PM Sun	Typhoon		80	150	22.9	131.8

Joint Typhoon Warning Center

Tuesday, 6 June — 6:00 PM JST (09:00 UTC) JTWC Warning #2

Hour	Date	Time		Intensity		Winds		Lat	Long
	—	UTC	JST	Saffir-Simpson		knots	km/h	°N	°E
00	06 Jun	06:00	3PM Tue	Tropical Depression		30	55	13.8	134.9
12	06 Jun	18:00	3AM Wed	Tropical Storm	▲	40	75	14.8	134.6
24	07 Jun	06:00	3PM Wed	Tropical Storm	▲	50	95	15.4	133.7
36	07 Jun	18:00	3AM Thu	Tropical Storm	▲	55	100	15.9	132.7
48	08 Jun	06:00	3PM Thu	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	65	120	16.4	131.6
72	09 Jun	06:00	3PM Fri	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	75	140	17.4	130.3
96	10 Jun	06:00	3PM Sat	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	80	150	18.9	130.3
120	11 Jun	06:00	3PM Sun	Hurricane (Cat 2)	▲	85	155	21.6	130.9

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Tuesday, 6 June – 4:20 PM India Standard Time (IST; 10:50 UTC)

JTWC Warning #1		2:30 PM IST (09:00 UTC)
Current location:		11.9°N 66.0°E
Relative location:		1,070 km (665 mi) SW of Mumbai, Maharashtra (India)
Forward motion:		N (360°) at 6 km/h (3 knots)
Maximum winds:	▲	95 km/h (50 knots)
Intensity (SSHWS):	▲	Tropical Storm
Intensity (IMD):		Depression
Minimum pressure:	▼	1004 millibars (29.65 inches)

Official forecasts

India Meteorological Department

Tuesday, 6 June — 11:30 AM IST (06:00 UTC)
(Note: Wind speeds have been converted from ten-minute values to one-minute values.)

Hour	Date	Time		Intensity		Winds		Lat	Long
—	—	UTC	IST	IMD		knots	km/h	°N	°E
00	06 Jun	06:00	11AM Tue	Deep Depression		30	60	11.9	66.0
12	06 Jun	18:00	11PM Tue	Cyclonic Storm	▲	40	70	12.4	66.0
24	07 Jun	06:00	11AM Wed	Cyclonic Storm	▲	45	80	13.0	65.9
36	07 Jun	18:00	11PM Wed	Cyclonic Storm	▲	50	90	13.6	65.8
48	08 Jun	06:00	11AM Thu	Severe Cyclonic Storm	▲	55	100	14.2	65.7
60	08 Jun	18:00	11PM Thu	Severe Cyclonic Storm		55	105	14.8	65.6
72	09 Jun	06:00	11AM Fri	Severe Cyclonic Storm	▲	60	115	15.4	65.5

## Joint Typhoon Warning Center Tuesday, 6 June — 2:30 PM IST (09:00 UTC) JTWC Warning #1

Hour	Date	Time		Intensity		Winds		Lat	Long
	—	UTC	IST	Saffir-Simpson		knots	km/h	°N	°E
00	06 Jun	06:00	11AM Tue	Tropical Storm		50	95	11.9	66.0
12	06 Jun	18:00	11PM Tue	Tropical Storm	▲	60	110	12.4	66.2
24	07 Jun	06:00	11AM Wed	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	65	120	12.9	66.4
36	07 Jun	18:00	11PM Wed	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	70	130	13.4	66.5
48	08 Jun	06:00	11AM Thu	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	75	140	13.9	66.6
72	09 Jun	06:00	11AM Fri	Hurricane (Cat 1)		75	140	15.3	66.5
96	10 Jun	06:00	11AM Sat	Hurricane (Cat 1)	▲	80	150	17.0	66.0
120	11 Jun	06:00	11AM Sun	Hurricane (Cat 2)	▲	85	155	18.4	65.5

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Hello and welcome to Kim Tan's Talk Time (Tuesday)!
This is a free-for-all discussion in which almost anything goes, don't diss The Heirs or break any of our other core rules. General discussion about anything and everything is allowed.
Consider this post a refuge from all the memes and fanart that are pouring in and enjoy the peace and quiet. Think of it as Tan's family wine cellar, the perfect place to chill out from the world in a fabulous sweater and have a little chat.
Who is this Kim Tan I keep hearing about and why does he have not one, but two threads dedicated to him? Good questions. If you take a look through our glossary, you will find all the answers you seek;

KIM TAN is the lead male in KDRAMA’s favourite drama, The Heirs. He’s kind of the worst but he has great sweaters so it balances out. “Kim Tan” is used in three ways on KDRAMA; 1) when referring to Lee Min Ho’s seminal character in The Heirs, 2) when referring to Automod (alt. Tan Bot) - “Kim Tan is feeling very triggered by my post”, “S***! Tan Bot just ate my post”, 3) In place of “God” or other deities - “For the love of Kim Tan!”

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As we all know this show's marketing is kind of horrible. At this point it might look like the only people that are gonna pull up to watch HH are those who knew it from the pilot and there won't be a lot of new viewers. But that's all beside the point.
In the most recent monthly update, we had a GIF of Alastor laughing his ass off in front of the hotel with a sign that says "Now Playing". Now, what if that's not a scene from one of the episodes but from the trailer, but when will that said trailer release? My guess is on this Tuesday, June 6th and if there'll actually be a trailer dropping that day I think it'll be around 6 am or pm in pst.
Why do I think that? Well because that specific date and time makes the number 666, whiwh is know to be a demonic number and since the show takes place in Hell... I don't see why they wouldn't go for that. Another reason is because of instead of posting a patch of Gifs herself, Vivziepop decided to post the same one with the caption: "Heehee". This probably means nothing to you but to me it looks like she's up to something.
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Robert's Rebellion Theme Song: The Czar Mastodon

Don't stay; run away He has ordered assassination Don't stay; run away The henchmen are gathered and waiting Don't stay; run away Your role as usurper is found out

This is part of a series exploring the hidden motives and actions of the main players during Robert's Rebellion, named LBJ in reference to the influence of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War on GRRM's views and writings on war. LBJ also indicates considerations over whether Lyanna + Bobby B = Jon Snow. Previous installments include:

• Rhaegar Had To Be A Warrior
• Why Did Rhaegar Crown Lyanna?
  • Ice, Ice Baby?
  • Political Suicide?
  • Was She 'A Very Kinky Girl'?
• The Forging of Lightbringer: Blue Flowers & Narrow Visors
• Rhaegar Mistakenly Crowned Lyanna
• I am not fond of fish, but when fish is served, I eat it.
• All is fair in love and war...
• Kingsguard Loyalty
• Southron Ambitions & Lies
• The Return of the Prince: Éowyn at the Trident
• Mirror on the Wall: King Robert vs. Queen Cersei

Previous parts argued that Robert Baratheon was complicit in a plot to overthrow the Targaryen dynasty. This scheme used Rhaegar's mistaken crowning of Lyanna at Harrenhal to form a believable, malicious lie that the crown prince abducted her. Certain members of the infamous STAB alliance, with assistance from the Martells and Tywin Lannister, all secretly conspired together to place a pliable pawn as king, wrestling control from a dynasty that no longer had dragons to enforce their rule. Lurid evidence was given which shows Robert had Rhaegar tortured, as Cersei tortured the Blue Bard, and we also saw more subtle hints that Lyanna herself attempted to avenge her family at the Trident, with the aid of innate skinchanging abilities.
This part aims to provide additional evidence that Robert lived up to his moniker, the Demon of the Trident, casting him as close to black as grey can get. King Robert is an avatar for all the worst flaws of Westerosi culture, a man enabled to wield massive power who yet skirted any sense of responsibility and chose to commit a mountain of moral transgressions in service to his personal desires.

Robert's face was dark with anger. "How many times must I tell you to hold your tongue, woman?"
Cersei's face was a study in contempt. "What a jape the gods have made of us two," she said. "By all rights, you ought to be in skirts and me in mail."
Purple with rage, the king lashed out, a vicious backhand blow to the side of the head. She stumbled against the table and fell hard, yet Cersei Lannister did not cry out. Her slender fingers brushed her cheek, where the pale smooth skin was already reddening. On the morrow the bruise would cover half her face. "I shall wear this as a badge of honor," she announced.

- A Game of Thrones Eddard X

The Horned Demon of the Trident

Next had come King Robert himself, with Lady Stark on his arm. The king was a great disappointment to Jon. His father had talked of him often: the peerless Robert Baratheon, demon of the Trident, the fiercest warrior of the realm, a giant among princes. Jon saw only a fat man, red-faced under his beard, sweating through his silks. He walked like a man half in his cups.

- A Game of Thrones Jon I
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Robert Baratheon bears a striking resemblance to Gaston from Beauty & the Beast, who imprisons his romantic interest and lies to incite violence against a rival. Gaston is driven by jealousy of the Beast and humiliation over Belle's rejection. Disney’s adaptation of Beauty & the Beast was released in 1991, just five years before A Game of Thrones was published.
Video: Gaston Beauty & the Beast
Video: George RR Martin on Writing for Beauty and the Beast
Martin has shown keen interest in Beauty & the Beast; adapting the tale for TV in the late 80s was a high point of his career. He even named his bookstore in Santa Fe Beastly Books, and named the cinema next door for Jean Cocteau, who also adapted the tale and created an earlier version of Gaston). This concept of kidnapping one’s romantic interest and blaming it on a rival to incite violence also crops up in The Princess Bride, which Martin has stated is his favorite fantasy film after the Lord of the Rings series.
Behaving like Prince Humperdinck from The Princess Bride or Gaston from Beauty & the Beast, driven by rage over the incident at Harrenhal and a family history of Targaryen betrayal, Robert lied about his queen of love and beauty and made Rhaegar out to be a beast, having them both kidnapped (with the help of his allies) but pretending otherwise as a pretext to win the throne. He then had to bury this secret, as he would lose support if it was known that the rebellion was built on such a malicious lie.
Martin is obviously inspired by Disney. In the last part, we showed how the torture of the Blue Bard, ordered by Cersei to extract a confession to undermine Margaery, is meant to reflect the story of Snow White, in which her vain and wicked step-mother is told by a magic mirror that the princess is more beautiful, leading her to send a huntsman to kill her. The huntsman takes Snow White into the deep of the wood but lets her flee, presenting a boar’s heart to the evil queen instead. Similarly, Robert is a huntsman who is killed by a boar, with the aid of strongwine supplied by his evil queen. Additional elements of Disney's Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs can be seen in parallels between Robert's only loss at Ashford and Dunk's trial at the Ashford Tourney in The Hedge Knight.
When Dunk travels to the Ashford Tourney, he recites lyrics from the Seven Dwarf's song Heigh-ho.

Off to Ashford to see the fair maid, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, Dunk thought miserably as he dug.

- The Hedge Knight
Like Snow White had Seven Dwarfs to defend her, Dunk defended himself in a Trial by Seven at the Ashford Tourney, and Rhaegar was accompanied by half a dozen companions when he went missing, enough to defend himself in a Trial by Seven. A troupe of a half dozen comic dwarfs also appear in The Mystery Knight, using pig bladders, like Robert was piss-drunk when he was killed by a pig. Dunk was championed by Robert's grandfather, Lyonel Baratheon, who defeated Robert Ashford during the tourney. Lord Lyonel later rebelled against the Iron Throne, after Duncan the Small betrayed the Laughing Storm by breaking off a betrothal to his daughter, similar to how Rhaegar betrayed Robert by crowning his betrothed at the Harrenhal Tourney. Duncan the Small's betrayal led Egg to arrange a marriage between his daughter Rhaelle and Lyonel's heir, which put Robert Baratheon in the line of succession; this family history would color Robert's perception of Rhaegar's betrayal, driving him to improve upon his grandfather's revenge.
Steffon was the name given to Robert Baratheon's father; Dunk was betrayed by red-apple Steffon Fossoway at Ashford, which led his cousin Raymun to create an offshoot branch, the green-apple Fossoways. A tender, protective Fossoway husband is used at the Purple Wedding to demonstrate how callous it would have been for Rhaegar to intentionally crown another women with his pregnant, delicate wife Princess Elia present. A poison apple brings down Snow White, after the evil queen discovers the huntsman replaced her heart with a boar's heart, conjuring up Robert's death scene which reminds Ned of his promise to Lyanna:

“Serve the boar at my funeral feast,” Robert rasped. “Apple in its mouth, skin seared crisp. Eat the bastard. Don’t care if you choke on him. Promise me, Ned.”
“I promise.” Promise me, Ned, Lyanna’s voice echoed.

- A Game of Thrones Eddard XIII
"The quarrel between Green and Red Apple Fossoway in the Hedge Knight story is another example of 'discordant apples'... At a tournament of all places." - The Blue Rose of Discord by u/Bronze_Age_472

The reason for the Trojan War according to myth, was a beauty contest. Three contestants were seeking someone to judge their beauty; Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Aphrodite won the contest, but only after she bribed Paris with Helen wife of Menelaus. Paris the judge, votes for Aphrodite by giving her an Apple. The other goddesses were furious and the conflict escalated out of control. The Greeks rallied around Menelaus and went to war with Troy.
The Blue Rose is a metaphorical "apple of discord". Like the apple of discord, it is nothing by itself, but in the right context leads to a larger conflict. It symbolizes how small things can create huge conflicts, how things quickly spin out of control. When Rhaegar gave the crown to Lyanna, nobody was happy... Just like the Judgement of Paris right before the Trojan War.

Like Rhaegar and Lyanna are often compared to Paris and Helen, figures of the mythical Trojan War, Robert is clearly meant to be considered relative to a maiden's fantasy, such as Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs or Beauty & the Beast:

Would that Ned had been able to say the same. Fifteen years past, when they had ridden forth to win a throne, the Lord of Storm’s End had been clean-shaven, clear-eyed, and muscled like a maiden’s fantasy. Six and a half feet tall, he towered over lesser men, and when he donned his armor and the great antlered helmet of his House, he became a veritable giant. He’d had a giant’s strength too, his weapon of choice a spiked iron warhammer that Ned could scarcely lift. In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume.

- A Game of Thrones Eddard I
In the last part, we used the evil queen's magic mirror from Snow White to provide insight into Robert through Cersei. Like he projected Lyanna onto Cersei on their wedding night, Robert projects his own actions onto Rhaegar, while caressing the cheek of Lyanna's statue and secretly lamenting to himself that he was with her sexually just once:

The king touched her cheek, his fingers brushing across the rough stone as gently as if it were living flesh. “I vowed to kill Rhaegar for what he did to her.”
“You did,” Ned reminded him.
“Only once,” Robert said bitterly.

- A Game of Thrones Eddard I
This subtext is mirrored by Jon Connington's love for Rhaegar, as he laments that Rhaegar ass-ended his tower only once. Connington then states that all the women cried to Rhaegar's music, like Lyanna cried at Harrenhal, reinforcing the link between this passage and the scene in the crypts.

Yet when they parted, Jon Connington did not go to the sept. Instead his steps led him up to the roof of the east tower, the tallest at Griffin's Roost. As he climbed he remembered past ascents—a hundred with his lord father, who liked to stand and look out over woods and crags and sea and know that all he saw belonged to House Connington, and one (only one!) with Rhaegar Targaryen. Prince Rhaegar was returning from Dorne, and he and his escort had lingered here a fortnight. He was so young then, and I was younger. Boys, the both of us. At the welcoming feast, the prince had taken up his silver-stringed harp and played for them. A song of love and doom, Jon Connington recalled, and every woman in the hall was weeping when he put down the harp. Not the men, of course. Particularly not his own father, whose only love was land. Lord Armond Connington spent the entire evening trying to win the prince to his side in his dispute with Lord Morrigen.

- A Dance with Dragons The Griffon Reborn
Robert's false accusation of rape mirrors Lord Mathis Rowan's daughter's lie which landed Dareon, a singer and harpist, like Rhaegar, on the Wall.

It made her angry to see Dareon sitting there so brazen, making eyes at Lanna as his fingers danced across the harp strings.

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He is a man of the Night's Watch, she thought, as he sang about some stupid lady throwing herself off some stupid tower because her stupid prince was dead. The lady should go kill the ones who killed her prince. And the singer should be on the Wall.

- A Feast for Crows Cat of the Canals
Jon Snow ends up at the Wall as an indirect consequence of Rhaegar being falsely accused of the rape of Lyanna. Jon later betrays the Watch to save (fake) Arya and is murdered as a result, like Arya murders Dareon for desertion; if she understood why Dareon took the black, maybe she'd be more forgiving of his betrayal. She might not be, because of the same conditioning that prevents Ned from showing mercy to Gared after he was chased south of the Wall by a direwolf. Likewise, if Rhaegar told Robert that he crowned Lyanna by mistake, Robert would still be unable to forgive the public humiliation he suffered as a result. And so despite Rhaegar's willingness to defend himself in a Trial by Seven, Robert went along with the rebel's plot to overthrow the Targaryen dynasty, which involved abducting both Rhaegar and Lyanna, and stashing her in a tower for the duration of the rebellion.

He found himself thinking of Robert more and more. He saw the king as he had been in the flower of his youth, tall and handsome, his great antlered helm on his head, his warhammer in hand, sitting his horse like a horned god. He heard his laughter in the dark, saw his eyes, blue and clear as mountain lakes. “Look at us, Ned,” Robert said. “Gods, how did we come to this? You here, and me killed by a pig. We won a throne together …”

- A Game of Thrones Eddard XV
Horny as ever and near the tower of joy, travelling alone to maintain his secrets, Robert sought out his lady love after his only defeat at Ashford; fear of death has a way of driving men back into the womb. Robert claimed Lyanna at the tower she was imprisoned in, and she used his hunting knife, the one given to him as a gift from Jon Arryn, to defend herself.
Remember what Ygritte told Jon Snow, outside of the tower Queenscrown?

“A man can own a woman or a man can own a knife,” Ygritte told him, “but no man can own both. Every little girl learns that from her mother.”

- A Storm of Swords Jon V
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A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.

Speaking of knives...
★ King Robert sent the Catspaw by u/M_Tootles:

• In this scenario, Robert’s “mad”, wine-soaked “master plan” was to arm his mercy-dealing catspaw with a Valyrian steel and dragonbone dagger for which he personally had no use but which he decided in his pie-eyed state would, when intentionally left at the scene of Bran’s unfortunate but ultimately justifiable end, look like the “signature” of a retribution-seeking Targaryen sympathizer, for It Was Known that the Targaryens hated not just Robert, but also Ned Stark, one of “the Usurper’s Dogs” whom they held personally responsible for the murder of Rhaegar’s children.
• And then there is the tourney he throws in honor of Ned, whose prizes just so happen to add up to exactly one thousand gold dragons for every silver stag the catspaw was paid, which looks an awful lot like the act of a man suffering from a guilty conscience. As does Robert drinking and hunting himself to death.

If blaming a Targaryen for his own misdeeds worked once, why wouldn’t Robert try it again?

This was something else: poison in the dark, a knife thrust to the soul. This he could never forgive, no more than he had forgiven Rhaegar. He will kill them all, Ned realized.

- A Game of Thrones Eddard XII
Sometime after his loss at Ashford, Robert appeared at Stoney Sept wounded and alone, while waiting for Ned to bring reinforcements from the North.

He had lost it all at Stoney Sept, in his arrogance.
Robert Baratheon had been hiding somewhere in the town, wounded and alone. Jon Connington had known that, and he had also known that Robert's head upon a spear would have put an end to the rebellion, then and there. He was young and full of pride. How not? King Aerys had named him Hand and given him an army, and he meant to prove himself worthy of that trust, of Rhaegar's love. He would slay the rebel lord himself and carve a place out for himself in all the histories of the Seven Kingdoms.

- A Dance with Dragons The Griffin Reborn
Robert fathered his bastard Bella in a brothel before the Battle of the Bells, a nod to Belle from Beauty & the Beast. This is just one of many acts that depicts his bestial nature; despite being in the midst of a war he claims to be fighting for Lyanna, Robert still found time to fuck all the whores at the Peach:

As she sat in the common room in her stupid girl clothes, Arya remembered what Syrio Forel had told her, the trick of looking and seeing what was there. When she looked, she saw more serving wenches than any inn could want, and most of them young and comely. And come evenfall, lots of men started coming and going at the Peach. They did not linger long in the common room, not even when Tom took out his woodharp and began to sing “Six Maids in a Pool.” The wooden steps were old and steep, and creaked something fierce whenever one of the men took a girl upstairs. “I bet this is a brothel,” she whispered to Gendry.
“You don’t even know what a brothel is.”
“I do so,” she insisted. “It’s like an inn, with girls.”
He was turning red again. “What are you doing here, then?” he demanded. “A brothel’s no fit place for no bloody highborn lady, everybody knows that.”
One of the girls sat down on the bench beside him. “Who’s a highborn lady? The little skinny one?” She looked at Arya and laughed. “I’m a king’s daughter myself.”
Arya knew she was being mocked. “You are not.”
“Well, I might be.” When the girl shrugged, her gown slipped off one shoulder. “They say King Robert fucked my mother when he hid here, back before the battle. Not that he didn’t have all the other girls too, but Leslyn says he liked my ma the best.”
The girl did have hair like the old king’s, Arya thought; a great thick mop of it, as black as coal. That doesn’t mean anything, though. Gendry has the same kind of hair too. Lots of people have black hair.
“I’m named Bella,” the girl told Gendry. “For the battle. I bet I could ring your bell, too. You want to?”

- A Storm of Swords Arya V
This bestial nature and Ned's willingness to enable it is put on full display when Robert returns to the Trident in A Game of Thrones. Robert allows Lady and Mycah to be killed as vengeance for Joffrey’s injury, despite later admitting he knew his heir was lying. Joffrey sustained this injury at the Trident because he drunkenly misperceived the fight between Arya and the butcher’s boy, and cruelly acted on his ‘chivalric duty’ to defend noble ladies. Likewise, Robert (and everyone else) misperceived Rhaegar’s intent when he crowned Lyanna, and his fervor for vengeance led him to go along with a plot to abduct her and pin the blame on Rhaegar, like Joffrey lied about what transpired during the fight. Both Lady the direwolf and wolf-blooded Lyanna were held accountable for crimes they were innocent of; Lyanna’s crowning may have suggested to Robert that she actively enticed Rhaegar, like rape victims are routinely scrutinized for their attire and other non-sexual behaviors to suggest they somehow invited their rapes. Ned went along with these obviously unjust actions, out of loyalty to his friend and king, and to prevent further harm to his family.

All Ned could do was take her in his arms and hold her while she wept. He looked across the room at Robert. His old friend, closer than any brother. “Please, Robert. For the love you bear me. For the love you bore my sister. Please.”
The king looked at them for a long moment, then turned his eyes on his wife.
“Damn you, Cersei,” he said with loathing.
Ned stood, gently disengaging himself from Sansa’s grasp. All the weariness of the past four days had returned to him. “Do it yourself then, Robert,” he said in a voice cold and sharp as steel. “At least have the courage to do it yourself.”
Robert looked at Ned with flat, dead eyes and left without a word, his footsteps heavy as lead. Silence filled the hall.
“Where is the direwolf?” Cersei Lannister asked when her husband was gone. Beside her, Prince Joffrey was smiling.
“The beast is chained up outside the gatehouse, Your Grace,” Ser Barristan Selmy answered reluctantly.
“Send for Ilyn Payne.”
“No,” Ned said. “Jory, take the girls back to their rooms and bring me Ice.” The words tasted of bile in his throat, but he forced them out. “If it must be done, I will do it.”
Cersei Lannister regarded him suspiciously. “You, Stark? Is this some trick? Why would you do such a thing?”
They were all staring at him, but it was Sansa’s look that cut. “She is of the north. She deserves better than a butcher.”
He left the room with his eyes burning and his daughter’s wails echoing in his ears, and found the direwolf pup where they chained her. Ned sat beside her for a while. “Lady,” he said, tasting the name. He had never paid much attention to the names the children had picked, but looking at her now, he knew that Sansa had chosen well. She was the smallest of the litter, the prettiest, the most gentle and trusting. She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur.
Shortly, Jory brought him Ice.
When it was over, he said, “Choose four men and have them take the body north. Bury her at Winterfell.”
“All that way?” Jory said, astonished.
“All that way,” Ned affirmed. “The Lannister woman shall never have this skin.”
He was walking back to the tower to give himself up to sleep at last when Sandor Clegane and his riders came pounding through the castle gate, back from their hunt.
There was something slung over the back of his destrier, a heavy shape wrapped in a bloody cloak. “No sign of your daughter, Hand,” the Hound rasped down, “but the day was not wholly wasted. We got her little pet.” He reached back and shoved the burden off, and it fell with a thump in front of Ned.
Bending, Ned pulled back the cloak, dreading the words he would have to find for Arya, but it was not Nymeria after all. It was the butcher’s boy, Mycah, his body covered in dried blood. He had been cut almost in half from shoulder to waist by some terrible blow struck from above.
“You rode him down,” Ned said.
The Hound’s eyes seemed to glitter through the steel of that hideous dog’s-head helm. “He ran.” He looked at Ned’s face and laughed. “But not very fast.”

- A Game of Thrones Eddard III
Most assume Gregor Clegane is the giant in armor made of stone in Bran’s vision of the Trident… yet he wasn’t present during the events Bran envisions. This dark shadow is a better fit for Robert, a veritable giant who won the throne at the Trident, who is first introduced as having gained eight stone, with a girth to match his height (like a mountain), and whose blood turns black when he is mortally wounded by a boar.

He looked south, and saw the great blue-green rush of the Trident. He saw his father pleading with the king, his face etched with grief. He saw Sansa crying herself to sleep at night, and he saw Arya watching in silence and holding her secrets hard in her heart. There were shadows all around them. One shadow was dark as ash, with the terrible face of a hound. Another was armored like the sun, golden and beautiful. Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood.

- A Game of Thrones Bran III
It would not be unusual for Bran to see both a person’s physical form and their shadow at the same time; this is how shadows work. Ned undoubtedly experiences inner turmoil in this scene, going along with injustice in service to a cowardly king despite the pain it causes his daughters. So, it's easy to see how the shadow with the face of the hound and the golden shadow are both cast by Ned, depicting a light and dark side at war within himself, representing his competing duties to his king and children which led him to execute Lady and accept Mycah's unjust death. It's not unusual that Ned would have multiple shadows, a dark and a light side making him grey as the direwolf on his sigil; recall, Stannis tells us that some lights cast more than one shadow:

King Stannis pointed a finger. “There you err, Onion Knight. Some lights cast more than one shadow. Stand before the nightfire and you’ll see for yourself. The flames shift and dance, never still. The shadows grow tall and short, and every man casts a dozen. Some are fainter than others, that’s all. Well, men cast their shadows across the future as well. One shadow or many. Melisandre sees them all.”

- A Clash of Kings Davos II
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Alfie Allen: You know, I asked him about who Jon Snow’s real parents were, and he told me. I can’t say who, but I can tell you that it involves a bit of a Luke Skywalker situation. It will all come to fruition eventually.
This series will conclude next time with a foray into Ned's inner turmoil, examining thoughts and actions which indict his friend and king. To preview where this series is headed, in its full audio/visual glory with greater detail, look here.

I wish you all a friendly BABYMETAL weekend!
It is BABYMETAL goodies time again! ...and BLACK BABYMETAL Friday!
Goodies not covered by the specialized goodies threads listed below are especially welcome here, like for example goodies with BABYMETAL as a whole, Black Babymetal (MoiMoi) goodies, people backing BM (in addition to Kamis) not getting enough credit, The One, BM interacting with outsiders like musicians/media/etc, and more... but any BM-related goodies you want to share with the community this weekend are welcome, without necessarily having to wait for the appropriate specialized goodies thread.
As usual: Here are the previous goodies thread and the latest Su Sunday, Moa Monday, Yui Tuesday, Momo Thursday, Kami Wednesday and Reactions Friday specialized goodies threads, in case you have not already read them or want to check them for late additions.
Share and Enjoy!
Sincerely, JalmarY
Standard Introduction:
Welcome to yet another goodies thread! I hope it will fulfil our needs for Babymetal kawaii, kick-ass, awesomeness, fun and tidbits from their past like all the earlier ones going back all the way to 17 Jul 2014 !
I encourage you all to put almost all of the kawaii-bombs (super-cute stuff), fun stuff, super-cool stuff, awesome moments, favourite pics+gifs+clips++, curiosities, fanart, brief stories of favourite fan moments, covers, reactions, mashups and similar non-news goodies in comments here or in one of the specialized weekly goodies threads so we do not clutter up the main submissions list.
But, if you find anything especially newsworthy or likely to draw many comments, you might give it its own thread, especially if it is unlikely that anyone here has seen it before. But -- please note: Something being super-kawaii/sugoi/kakkoi (super-cute/amazing/cool) is not a good enough reason by itself for a separate link thread, that is just the norm when dealing with BABYMETAL -- and please never post old stuff as separate threads/posts -- gathering links to non-new stuff is one of the main reasons for this threads existence. Also kindly post most new goodies here too, especially when it is "typical goodies thread material".
background info
2023 goodies threads:
467 466 465 464 463 462 461 460 459 458 457 456 455 454 453 452 451 450 449 448 447
2022 goodies threads: 446 445 444 yon-yon-yon! 443 442 441 440 439 438 437 436 435 434 433 432 431 430 429 428 427 426 425 424 423 422 421 420 419 418 417 416 415 414 413 412 411 410 409 408 407 406 405 404 403 402 401 400 399 398 397 396 395
2021 goodies threads: 394 393 392 391 390 389 388 387 386 385 384 383 382 381 380 379 378 377 376 375 374 373 372 371 370 369 368 367 366 365 364 363 362 361 360 359 358 357 356 355 354 353 352 351 350 349 348 347 346 345 344 343 342
2020 goodies threads: 341 340 339 338 337 336 335 334 333 332 331 330 329 328 327 326 325 324 323 322 321 320 319 318 317 316 315 314 313 312 311 310 309 308 307 306 305 304 303 302 301 300 299 298 297 296 295 294 293 292
Rest of 2019 goodies threads: 291 290 289 288 287 286 285 284 283 282 281 280 279 278 277 276 275 274 273 272 271 270
First 5 Years (mid2014..mid2019) indexed in the anniversary thread

Wednesday, May 24 - Tuesday, May 30

Top Media and Culture

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
52	4 comments	[Media and Culture] Bridge Escape 🌉
46	0 comments	[Media and Culture] Saw this on HotWheels
11	1 comments	[Media and Culture] Orbiting around a planet made of synthwave (working on a retro space game)

 

Top Aesthetics

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
470	13 comments	[Aesthetics] “Night Ride”
425	7 comments	[Aesthetics] Last nights sunset courtesy of the the wild fires in Canada
365	20 comments	[Aesthetics] “Palm City Nights”
340	7 comments	[Aesthetics] Neo City Vibe, Art by me
270	2 comments	[Aesthetics] Speeding towards the city

 

Top Music

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
532	26 comments	[Music] Went to see Carpenter Brut after hearing him on this sub
26	6 comments	[Music] I made a song! Does it fit the vibe?
14	12 comments	[Music] "Chrome Dreams" - 80s inspired synthwave song, made with AI's assistance. Links in the comments.
9	0 comments	[Music] Ellie Goulding - Temptation
8	3 comments	[Music] Some Sounds.. :)
6	0 comments	[Music] 46 Hrs Blade Runner Cyberpunk inspired playlist. Great music for gaming, night driving or you just want to forget the world for a moment.
5	0 comments	[Music] ＺΛＹΛＺ - Light Years Away
4	0 comments	[Music] My first synthwave song! Heavily perturbator-inspired, if it isn't obvious lol
4	1 comments	[Music] Dragon Inn 3 - Backstabber	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]
4	0 comments	[Music] The Revival [OC] - My newest synthwave album inspired by the days of playing super nintendo at your friend's house

 

Top Remaining

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
240	21 comments	[Aesthetics] Temple Grid
208	6 comments	[Aesthetics] This particular beer coaster
206	11 comments	[Aesthetics] Spotted this at a souvenir shop
200	0 comments	[Aesthetics] “Dreamy Evening”
187	5 comments	[Playlist] Over 14hrs of pure non-stop instrumental Retrowave / Synthwave Bangers!

 

Top 5 Most Commented

score	comments	title & link	mirrors
24	4 comments	[Playlist] My personal outrun playlist, also features synthpop and dream pop you like a more broad / experimental synth experience.
24	4 comments	[Aesthetics] “Evening Ride”
33	4 comments	[Aesthetics] This cassette I found
79	4 comments	[Live Shows & Meetups] More Carpenter Brut
3	3 comments	[Music] LazerNomad - Last Mission	[Sp] [AM] [BC] [Dzr] [SC]

 

Wednesday, May 24 - Tuesday, May 30

Top videos

score	comments	title & link
250	26 comments	[Video] John Bean interrupts Martin Gelinas interview with “it was in, it was in”
243	28 comments	[Shitpost] nick fucking ritchie
138	30 comments	[Shitpost] Oh what could have been.
123	19 comments	[Highlights] Lucic sets up the game winner for Canada.
53	10 comments	[Video] Conroy's a beaut
43	39 comments	[Shitpost] The play that changed flames history
30	7 comments	[Video] The Craig Conroy Era Starts In Calgary | 32 Thoughts

 

Top Non-shitposts

score	comments	title & link
407	261 comments	[Other Teams] Tkachuk scores the gwg to send Florida to the finals
332	58 comments	[Other Teams] pain
208	89 comments	Either Eichel or Tkachuk wins the cup this season
204	42 comments	[Hype] [Aaron Vickers] Weegar on Conroy: "It's a great decision and a great move for the organization. I think he gets the game really well and he's an infectious guy. He wants to win, and he wants to have fun while doing it."
169	4 comments	[Other Teams] Maybe the only day I can brag... Calgary Wranglers legend Kristians Rubins with the OT GWG today for Latvia
153	41 comments	[Discussion] Watching Weegar QB the powerplay for Canada
149	41 comments	[Article] Lucic still 'enjoys the game,' wants to play in NHL next season -> by [Aaron Vickers / NHL.com Independent Corresponden]
145	15 comments	Our new GM and a 2 year old tale
135	66 comments	[News] [Dreger] All signs now point to the search [for the Toronto Maple Leafs GM] wrapping up in the very near future with Brad Treliving being named as the new GM
123	78 comments	[Seravalli] Conroy wants to add a top 6 forward, build chemistry, and play the star players more

 

Top Shitposts

score	comments	title & link
351	33 comments	[Shitpost] Me watching Chucky light it up in the playoffs
160	21 comments	[Shitpost] One year ago I made a post to try to encourage fans after we lost to the Oilers. If only I knew what would happen the next season...
0	19 comments	[Shitpost] If only…

 

Wednesday, May 24 - Tuesday, May 30

Top videos

score	comments	title & link
175	25 comments	I got interviewed by a Dallas news station before game 1.
127	12 comments	Inspired by the Geico commercial and ancient Reddit threads of other teams... I made my own goal horn button at home for the playoffs in VGK style.
84	22 comments	[Off-Topic] [2008 Detroit Red Wings vs Dallas Stars] After taking a 3-0 stranglehold on the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Final, Detroit would end up dropping Games 4 & 5, setting up a Game 6 in Dallas. Detroit would win Game 6 by a score of 4-1, and won the Stanley Cup two weeks later
73	12 comments	[Armor Up] "Get harder."-Bruce Cassidy
41	3 comments	[Post Game] Adin Hill fan post
32	2 comments	William Carrier has the Game Winning Goal in the Western Conference Final
25	8 comments	[Shitpost] Here we come for the DaLLLLas Sparklers!

 

Game thread comments

score	comment
75	Drifty_Canadian said Flames fan here, GO KNIGHTS!
68	FridayCicero702 said 🎵 "Twinkle, twinkle little Stars" 🎵 🎵 "Place Jamie Benn behind bars" 🎵 🎵 "If he hollers let him cry" 🎵 🎵 "Misfits until the day I die" 🎵 🎵 "Get the brooms, feel it up" 🎵 🎵 "All we want is th...
64	bigjames2002 said #🚨 SCOOOOORING FOR YOUR GOLDEN KNIGHTS! 🚨 #NUMBER 71, WILLIAM KARLSSON!
62	BlessTheKneesPart2 said It's now clear we just wanted to wait and embarrass Jamie Benn at home after his suspension was over.
53	UnhealthyCheesecake said The Vegas Golden Knights are going to win this game.
53	FlurriesofFleuryFury said what the fuck ESPN "Eichel is like an uncle, saying 'I just want that thing in...'" what the fuck does that mean? do I want to know?
51	teatew said Please win tonight. I don’t need the additional anxiety of a game 6.
47	ForkzUp said This is ... enjoyable. Sitting here in a bar in Phoenix wearing my VGK jersey. The Dallas fans a few tables over aren't happy.
45	lobsterpillow said Dallas fans booed and Eichel smiled. He is fueled by hate and I love it.
42	The_Bearded_Jedi said Kraken fan coming in peace. Go Knights, fuck Benn up

 

Top Non-Shitposts

score	comments	title & link
505	155 comments	[Post Game] WITH A 6-0 SHUT OUT, THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS WIN GAME 6 AND ARE HEADED TO THE STANLEY CUP FINALS TO FACE THE FLORIDA PANTHERS
422	228 comments	[Post Game] With a 4-2 series win over the Dallas Stars, the Vegas Golden Knights advance to face the Florida Panthers in the Stanley Cup Final
346	34 comments	“Knights fan coming in peace” threads or posts are widely seen as a form of humble bragging or humble gloating. Just leave Dallas alone, they are miserable and don’t need to be told by the team that stomped them how good they are despite the stomping. Just leave them be.
321	13 comments	Thank you, Pete DeBoer for finally leading us to a WCF series win 🎻
287	53 comments	[League News] Dallas Stars President and CEO Brad Alberts has issued an apology to the Golden Knights.
287	52 comments	DO NOT go to the Star’s sub to “come in peace.” That shit is terrible.
282	24 comments	[Armor Up] ANOTHA ONEEEE
279	42 comments	Eichel has now made the Stanley Cups Finals before McDavid!
256	30 comments	[PlayeTeam Discussion] Your Western Conference Champions
231	132 comments	[Battle Prep] WAKE UP KNIGHTS! TONIGHT WE CAN PUNCH OUR TICKET TO THE FINALS! LET’S SHOW THE STARS WHY WE’RE THE BEST IN THE WEST! GO KNIGHTS GO!

 

Top Shitposts

score	comments	title & link
286	10 comments	[Shitpost] I know it’s bad, but I’m just enjoying the memes today
227	35 comments	[Shitpost] To everyone who is already acting like we are in the SCF remember this.
217	5 comments	[Shitpost] Back to Vegas on a Mission
166	11 comments	[Shitpost] Dear Oettinger
138	9 comments	[Shitpost] Adin Mountain

 

Just about every other social media has HAD a Kami Band Wednesday. There may not be as many goods out there as the girls have, but they are more active and accessible on social media. Not to mention illustrious careers both in and outside of BABYMETAL. This is the place to celebrate those careers! Post your pics, gifs, vids, convos and just EVERYTHING Kami Band related!
ALL members; past, present and future are encouraged! But i swear to the Fox God, if i see one baby bones pic, i’m shutting the whole thing down ;p
[Previous thread](I haven’t posted the full version in soo long that i can’t find the last one lol)
Don’t forget to check out these threads: Goodies Thread 467, The Official Weekend Free-For-All, Queen Su Sunday 461, Super Moa Monday 461 and Princess Yui Tuesday 461.
Let the goodies and discussions begin…

Purtle's Internet Lineup for May 30th, 2023 6:52pm
Pics:

• You may not know his name, but you're probably familiar with some of his illustrations: today it's Larry Jost's turn to have his own little presentation thread: [thread] https://twitter.com/VGDensetsu/status/1663256520048377890
  
• these two trucks have the same bed length https://twitter.com/coolbutstinky/status/1663287478181134336
  
• smogon is dying https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1663551464353177604
  
• Zelda ToTK related stuff
  
  • oh ya? https://twitter.com/DitzyFlama/status/1663597425494470658
• Pokemon news
  
  • Pokemon Home is out. And there are problems
  • now the Pokemon HOME renders are officially out i can talk about how fucking ugly or straight up inaccurate they are [thread] https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1663429573701251072
  • "If a Pokémon obtained in Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl undergoes Hyper Training in Pokémon Scarlet or Violet, you won’t be able to move that Pokémon back to Pokémon Brilliant Diamond or Shining Pearl until it reaches Level 100." No mention of SWSH. https://twitter.com/mattyoukhana_/status/1663355977599426560
  • so Event Pokemon cant relearn their moves in Pokemon HOME for future games, its so fucking over https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1663484838836420609
  • In case you were wondering, no moves don't transfer between SWSH and SV. Had someone check by putting Toxic on Cresselia in SWSH and moving it to SV and Toxic can't be relearned in HOME for it. So yeah that "dream" is dead https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/1663478154055278593
  • transferring from Pokemon HOME into Scarlet & Violet can result in a bugged display for a Pokemon's ID number which means that this can happen [thread] https://twitter.com/Lewchube/status/1663496157773824001

Clips:

• Cool Bulbasaur https://twitter.com/USGMEN_GIF/status/1662766403634745344
  
• NL picturing the world map https://twitter.com/NorthernIion_LP/status/1663329000855568385
  
• Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butoden has gotta have some of the funniest assists of all time. I love how they range from King Kai telling a joke so bad it makes both players fall over to Farmer Goku on a tractor, to Chi-Chi being Mr. Resetti: https://twitter.com/UltimaShadowX/status/1663377879944822790
  
• he came to your house https://twitter.com/ExplosiveTG/status/1663288684915859458
  
• I FOUND THE ORIGINAL SAMPLE FOR ELECTRIC ZOO HOLY SHIT https://twitter.com/manahouse_/status/1663393835295166464
  
• not again https://twitter.com/Cyndaquilism/status/1663258909409198094
  
• oh ya? https://twitter.com/DitzyFlama/status/1663597425494470658
  

Videos

• Branching Tastes [Work Ethic] Sakurai [4:07] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Khnf80P7M
  
• Gecko Grip: It's automatic Deep Look [3:45] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5cqJTU5D5I
  

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This is going back quite a while now, so some of the memories are a tad hazy, but the crux of the story follows. Anyone whose worked in a call centre knows becuase of the high turnover of staff, you change teams quite frequently, so you cycle between good managers and crap ones. This is one of the latter. It's a long one, so strap in.
I have always been a top sales performer in the sales call centre. When I first stepped onto the floor, fresh out of training, I instantly was in the top 5 or so performers in a sales centre that had >100 staff at the time, and before my 6 month probation had ended, I had hit #1 agent by a noticable margin. This was somewhat due to my commercial nous, my ability to actually think outside of the box instead of the shitty instructions they gave us in training and my desire to work copious amounts of overtime (OT paid well). They had brought in some whiz salesperson (Lucas) from a competitor (I never knew companies would poach call centre staff, but hey it was what it was), they did everything short of give this guy the welcoming party LeBron got when he took his talents to South Beach. He outsold me for a month or two, but then I upped my game and topped the charts yet again. It was getting to the point whereby the margin between myself and Lucas was wider than the gap between Lucas and maybe the 30th best salesperson on the floor. I later found out that Lucas was getting the "Glengarry leads", basically data entering a bunch of sales that were made by an outsourced Third Party, and he still couldn't match pace with me. To call it embarassing is an understatement.
But enough about me and my achievements, this is about my shitty boss and her performance review of me. I was moved to work under a lady (Josie), who had come back to work after an extended leave (not maternity leave, just....time off). She only worked part time, Monday-Wednesday, which as long as I get paid, I couldn't really give a crap. Her first week back though, she didn't turn up on Monday, rocked up at 9:15 on Tuesday, and left before lunch (11:30, maybe?) and called in sick on Wednesday. Yup, shining example of leadership she was indeed!
I busted my ass off, partly to stick it to Lucas, partly because the aforementioned OT rates were quite generous, and partly to have the justification to outline to Senior management how far ahead of the rest of the department I was, I'm arrogant, sue me. Now the thing about an inbound call centre is that you need staff to cover different shifts, our contact centre was open 8am - 7pm with 8 hour shifts. Naturally, 8am shifts are desired, finish at 4pm, have the rest of the day to go to the beach or masturbate or spend time with your family, or whatever normal people do after work; and staff work on a rotating roster (some weeks you start early, some weeks you start late, etc). Josie's team was a group of eight of us who did some more account management work, so we were a little bit of an islanded team unto ourselves. This meant that our team worked on our own rotating roster, rather than in line with the rest of the 100 or so call centre agents. At least that's what I was told.
I noticed that I was on the late shifts for a number of consecutive weeks, whilst others were on the much to be desired early shifts seemingly endlessly. Now there were exceptions for staff who needed them for certain reasons (mothers picking up kids from school, medical requirements etc), but my "teammates" didn't fall under these exceptions, they just asked for them and got them, but after three months of late shifts, I asked whether I could get early shifts, but apparently there wasnt any availability for them anymore, given that the rest of the team was on permanant early shifts because they liked the early shifts better. Now I wouldn't have minded this so much if they weren't so incompetent or unreliable. I went over our roster, of the five team members who got these coveted early shifts, I could not find a single seven consecutive workday period for any of them where they didn't have any UPL (unplanned leave), where they didn't start late, or finish early, or just flat out didn't rock up to work, but apparently, they had all "paid their dues" or whatever to deserve permanant early shifts.
So on one of the days I was scheduled to work at 11, I had come into the office ultra at about 8:30, as I had scheduled to do something. I came in to drop my bag off and go, but Josie comes to me in a panic, lo and behold, all four permaearly shifters are all nowhere to be found, it's half an hour in and there's about 35 calls in our queue, and our team has answered exactly 0 calls (we had a different skillset than the rest of the sales centre). She begs me to do OT, but my appointment was something I couldn't get out of, and intentionally scheduled on a day I had on the late shift, so that I could actually make it. I login at 11 and do my job for the day.
Okay, this is finally the point where we get to my performance review part; when it comes to review time, all my KPIs are fucking fantastic, close to double my sales target for the 6 months previous, AHT one of the lowest in the department, conversion is right up there, I had taken my own time (after work hours, at home, on weekends) to develop a sales training pack to help develop agents' skills (I actually enjoyed it to be honest), I had a midas touch whereby I had sat with agents (from other teams) only a few sessions and turned them from on the cusp of being fired to gun sales agents. Some of this is luck (inbound call centre), some of this is my skills, but for the purpose of this diatribe, let's chalk it up to me being the best sales coach the company has ever seen. Josie doesn't seem to think so, she called me unreliable, becuase that one time I didn't do OT when she had asked me to. I just kept submitting my personal rating as "excellent" or "exceeds expectations" or whatever the top ranking on whatever platform we used was called, she keeps rejecting them saying that they should be "average" or "meets expectations". I eventually cave, because I realise I'm not a C-Suite exec trying to fellate shareholders or middle management trying satisfy the remuneration committee for their bonus, I'm a lowly call centre sales agent so these perofrmance reviews don't impact my pay, which is entirely a base salary + commission + OT. But she has the audacity to call me "unreliable", despite the fact that I hadn't taken a day off in the six months (I was banking my leave) I worked under her, I was the only person in the entire team that actually worked OT to clear her precious call queue, I had handled multiple high value customers of ours when it had dropped in her lap, but the lady who in her first week back to work barely put in 2 hours was calling me "unreliable". She came back at me saying that she did everything but offer herself up for a gangbang to Workforce to get me onto the 10:45 - 6:45 shift one week, because I might as well have voluntarily offered my left kidney so she could have one spare anytime she needed because of the favour she did for me by enabling me to wrap up 15 minutes early that one week.
To call her useless would be a compliment. Remember when I said she worked part time? Part time probably isn't even the right word. She would technically be in the office 8am-4pm, but she wouldn't do anything productive before 9am, because she was "catching up on emails". This wasn't the actual productive emails though, it was nothing but the dredge of call centre emails, happy birthday emails, stupid memes/gifs and celebrating a call where the customer said "you've been really helpful, thank you" that was sent to the entire floor, **every**single**one**of**which** she would never miss a Reply All to. She made absolutely sure to send a happy birthday email with a custom designed GIF on an email thread from a fortnight prior, but when I send an email requesting an update to a high priority VIP customer's plan and it takes her two weeks to approve it, where she types "approved" in an email and spells it incorrectly. She would also do nothing after 3pm because it was always "nearly time to go", even if the request was a task that would take her a minute to complete and dead on 4pm, she would sprint out the exit, not briskly walk, not even run, but dead sprint to the point where Usain Bolt was probably worried about the status of his world records.
I'm still cut up about my performance review though, regardless of its lack of impact on my remuneration, so I do as much as I can to annoy her. I intentionally don't reply to her emails, no matter how much she @'s me, or marks it as important. When I do have to reply, because a higher up has been CC'd in, I intentionally leave her off the email. When she does approach me about it, I told flat out told her to her face that it's in the "very important" folder marked Deleted Items, when she asks me a question on IM, I left an unsent message meaning she sees that I'm typing, when I do finally send her a message, I actually answer it with something meant for someone else, to try and raise false hope. When she asks me to send her an update of the team's sales results (she was literally too incompetent to download the spreadsheet herself and run a filter on it), I converted the spreadsheet to .txt and password protected it. She had no idea how to convert it from .txt. to excel.
I did eventually land a secondment outside of the call centre, and in the last week I was there, took on as much work as I possibly could, most of which had deadlines that happened to fall on the first week I was gone from the centre. Suffice to say, I did exactly 0 work on any of those things. I checked her teams' sales results, as a team she went from ~103% sales to target to <70%, conversion halved and AHT skyrocketed from the moment I left her team. I was fucking carrying her team and to her own monthly sales bonus. I know how much their commission structure was, so by losing me, she lost ~AUD$2-2.5K commission a month out of her own salary.
Not really sure what happened to ol' Josie afterwards though, she left whilst I was still on my secondment, I heard through the grapevine that all the permaearly shifters also eventually left, I guess the hassle of turning up to work, roughly on time was simply too much to ask?